The Republican-led state budget committee approved dramatic changes to the K-12 education landscape during a recent early morning vote. The new policies written into the 2015-17 budget include subjecting low-performing large school districts to a state-imposed reorganization, lifting the cap on school vouchers and changing the way students with disabilities are educated.
Q&A: Republicans champion big changes to K-12 education in Wisconsin
Johanna Novich Leonard tutors Precious Sepulveda, 11, during an after-school program at Lussier Community Education Center.
School board members are considering raising taxes and using a budget surplus to avoid a $11.6 million deficit for 2016-17.
Wisconsin lawmakers cut conservation spending by $88 million. Walker wanted a moratorium on stewardship land buys.
Independent charter schools could be created in Milwaukee and Madison under the proposal.
Lawmakers plan to lift the cap on the statewide voucher program.
It also would require public school students to pass a civics test to graduate high school, let them attend schools in other states and let hi…
He was the featured speaker at a meeting of choice and voucher advocates in New Orleans.
